Rogers 4x-xx-xx (xxxx) The Russian Kid

Well Roy, isn't it just about time that we kind of banked the embers on the campfire and got ready for your yarn about the old frontier days? Yes, I reckon it is, Vern. And I think that tonight we've got a store that is just a little bit different.

Oh really Roy? What's the story about? Well, Pat, although not many people today know it, but during the early days of the West, it wasn't at all unusual to walk up to a ranch hand or a miner and ask him for a match and hear him say, Hey, Madge, of course my friend. I'm only too glad to oblige.

You mean there were Russian cowboys in the West Roy? I sure do, Pat, and although there weren't a lot of them, they contributed at least their share in the building of our frontier country. Well then, tell me, did you ever know any of these Russian cowboys?

Well, now, wait a minute. Look here, Pat, as long as I'm going to appear in the story, why not let Vern Smith get started telling the folks how this particular story came to take place?

In the early days of the English feudal system, the ruthlessness of the barons caused Robin Hood to form his band of avengers, who robbed the rich to help the poor. and so in the early days of the West, the growing injustices brought about by the ruthlessness of the cattle-barons gave rise to more than a dozen frontier robin hoods, outlaws to the

very rich, called friend by the very poor. One of the most colorful of these was a broad-shouldered blonde giant of a man whose name, virtually forgotten, was Boris Boretnovich. But in the The rich valet is near the Blackhawk River.